Friday, January 6, 2012

Activity #3 - Cell Phone Holder

Seriously this is fabulous!
A place to shove the charger cord while your cell refreshes its battery.
No more cords all over......and i think it's cute.

I started with an empty bottle from baby shampoo and a scrap piece of material (it was probably about 10x10).

I removed the label (which came off really easily).

Then I measured how tall my cell phone was and drew a straight line across the bottle with a marker.

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Then I drew this arch shape on the back. I initially messed up....so I just drew it again.

Now...thanks to my fabulous hubby, I was able to cut the bottle with an X-ACTO knife. Check out his fancy set:

﻿I then drew a square with rounded edges on the bad of the bottle.....and then cut it out.

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Next, I sanded the edges that I cut, just to smooth them out.

I also sanded the bottle so that it would hold the Mod Podge a little better.

I covered the front of the bottle with Mod Podge and put the fabric on. I then wrapped it around the bottle and cut off the extra. I folded it over the bottom edges. I then trimmed the excess around the top. I put on a good layer of Mod Podge OVER the fabric and then hung it to dry.

Then I cut an oval shape and glued it to the bottom. I then trimmed all the strings and fray edges and cut the material out of the square.

That's it....it was done. It took me about 15 minutes tops....pretty cool I think.

Here's what it looks like on the wall. Can you see my phone glowing with pleasure with it's new home.